Aster + Asha Gallery artist, Miranda Hine, will present an exhibition of new paintings at POP Gallery in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley next month.
A winner of last year’s prestigious Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, this new body of work sees her continue to explore how we construct meaning and make sense of the world around us through the organisation of images and text.
Titled, Hot Trail, the exhibition plays with patterns and repetition within the British murder mystery TV genre, compiling storytelling devices such as red herrings and recurring plot points repeated across multiple programs. The genre is a strange convergence of killing and entertainment, one that provides consumers with safety in the predictable structure of the storyline – an insight into a human desire for certainty.
Why has this genre enjoyed such sustained popularity in Australia? Beyond the neat narrative conventions found in the programs, Miranda’s paintings point to repetition in which figures and institutions these stories uphold are presented as the arbiters of authority, morality and knowledge.
Miranda’s paintings serve as collated, fragmentary moments inspired by scenes found in these shows amplifying their mysterious qualities.
About the Artist
Miranda Hine is a Meanjin/Brisbane based artist, curator and writer whose research explores systems and histories of collecting, documenting, cataloguing and arranging to construct and disrupt narratives.
Image: Miranda Hine Footprints in the flowerbed (red herring) (Poirot s5e7) 2023 oil on board 61 x 91 cm
